Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver star in the new trailer for My Salinger Year, out March 5th. Based on the 2014 memoir of the same name, Qualley stars as Joanna Rakoff, who leaves graduate school and moves to New York City to become a writer. She gets hired as an …
Read More »Flashback: Joan Baez and Marianne Faithfull Sing 'As Tears Go By' in Bob Dylan's Hotel Room
The rock documentary was practically invented by filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker when he tagged along with Bob Dylan for his U.K. tour in April and May 1965 and shot fly-on-the-wall footage. Ninety-six minutes wound up in his 1967 film Don’t Look Back, but that was just a fraction of what …
Read More »Buying Beats for Viral Songs Is Becoming a Popular (and Messy) Business
Caleb Hearn and Jason Messer used to be inseparable. “We did everything together,” says Hearn, a 20-year-old singer from King, North Carolina. But on February 18th, 2017, when Messer asked his friend to go hiking in nearby Hanging Rock State Park, Hearn had to bow out — he had a …
Read More »'Lupin': Mastering the Art of the Steal
Among the many comic delights of Lupin, the French heist series that premiered on Netflix earlier this month, is an unspoken one. Time and again, the show’s hero, master thief Assane Diop (Omar Sy) is able to slip into a place unnoticed, or by assuming a minor disguise that prevents …
Read More »Watch Ray Wylie Hubbard Make Long-Awaited 'Austin City Limits' Debut
Since emerging from the Texas outlaw scene in the early Seventies, Ray Wylie Hubbard has written some of the genre’s smartest, funniest — and most overlooked — classics. A favorite of Jerry Jeff Walker and Eric Church, Hubbard explores everything from his wild past to his deep knowledge of Christianity, …
Read More »Tim McGraw, Tyler Hubbard Give Live Debut of 'Undivided' at 'Celebrating America'
Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard gave the live debut of “Undivided,” their song of unity and understanding, during Wednesday night’s Celebrating America inauguration concert. Performing on the east bank of the Cumberland River in Nashville, beneath the city’s pedestrian bridge, the duo talked about the collaboration’s message and origin. Hubbard, …
Read More »Trump Pardoned a Bunch of People Who Are Almost as Corrupt as He Is
Donald Trump is going out like he came in: corrupt as hell. The departing president left the White House for Mar-a-Lago at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, slinking out after a disastrous and deadly four years. One of his last acts on the job was granting a flurry of pardons and …
Read More »Live Nation Buys Veeps, Joel and Benji Madden's Livestreaming Company
Concert promotion giant Live Nation has bought a majority stake in livestreaming platform Veeps, the company announced Tuesday. Live Nation, which has endured 10 months and counting without regular concerts or tours due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will now be directly positioned in the fast-growing livestreaming space. For Live Nation, …
Read More »Rage Against the Machine Detail History Behind 'Killing in the Name' in Mini-Doc
Rage Against the Machine detail the grim American history behind their 1991 anthem “Killing in the Name” in a new mini-documentary. The 15-minute film Killing in Thy Name, a collaboration with the arts collective the Ummah Chroma, features a teacher educating a small group of students about “the fiction known …
Read More »What 2020's Hardships Taught These Seven Leaders About Community
For years, the rise of the online era has been sparking conversation about the future of communication and what it means to connect in a tech-driven society. But as the unforeseen circumstances of last year rushed the world into a new age of digital communication, it was being apart that …
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